Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9, episode 6 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired March 22 on Fox.
You’d better be ready to, be ready to… Jump! Off of “The Masked Singer.” Actor Holly Robinson Peete, known for “21 Jump Street” among other things, was one of the two more celebrities who unmasked on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer.” Also out: WWE star Alexa Bliss, who just made headlines this week for revealing that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, and recently underwent a procedure for it.
For Axolotl, panelist Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right, naming Alexa Bliss (real names Alexis Kaufman and Alexis “Lexi” Cabrera). Robin Thicke guessed Nikki Bella. Ken Jeong thought it was Brie Bella. Nicole Scherzinger picked McKayla Maroney.
As for Fairy, no one guessed Robinson Peete. Scherzinger went with Tracee Ellis Ross, McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Corrine Foxx,...
You’d better be ready to, be ready to… Jump! Off of “The Masked Singer.” Actor Holly Robinson Peete, known for “21 Jump Street” among other things, was one of the two more celebrities who unmasked on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer.” Also out: WWE star Alexa Bliss, who just made headlines this week for revealing that she had been diagnosed with skin cancer, and recently underwent a procedure for it.
For Axolotl, panelist Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right, naming Alexa Bliss (real names Alexis Kaufman and Alexis “Lexi” Cabrera). Robin Thicke guessed Nikki Bella. Ken Jeong thought it was Brie Bella. Nicole Scherzinger picked McKayla Maroney.
As for Fairy, no one guessed Robinson Peete. Scherzinger went with Tracee Ellis Ross, McCarthy Wahlberg thought it was Corrine Foxx,...
- 3/23/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead if you have not watched the Season 9, episode 5 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired March 15 on Fox.
Two more celebrities were unmasked on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer”: Actor/comedian Malin Akerman and social media star Lele Pons were revealed to be Squirrel and Jackalope, respectively.
For Squirrel, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right, naming Malin Akerman. Robin Thicke guessed Heather Graham. Ken Jeong thought it was Katherine Heigl. Nicole Scherzinger picked Kate Hudson. Guest panelist Jennifer Nettles said Anne Hathaway.
As for Jackalope, Scherzinger quickly figured out it was Lele Pons, and Thicke agreed. McCarthy Wahlberg said Jenna Ortega. Jeong went with Selena Gomez. Nettles picked Camilla Cabello.
It was “Sesame Street” night, and the episode opened with Elmo singing “What’s The Name of that Song” before turning it over to Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, the Count and...
Two more celebrities were unmasked on Wednesday’s edition of “The Masked Singer”: Actor/comedian Malin Akerman and social media star Lele Pons were revealed to be Squirrel and Jackalope, respectively.
For Squirrel, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg got it right, naming Malin Akerman. Robin Thicke guessed Heather Graham. Ken Jeong thought it was Katherine Heigl. Nicole Scherzinger picked Kate Hudson. Guest panelist Jennifer Nettles said Anne Hathaway.
As for Jackalope, Scherzinger quickly figured out it was Lele Pons, and Thicke agreed. McCarthy Wahlberg said Jenna Ortega. Jeong went with Selena Gomez. Nettles picked Camilla Cabello.
It was “Sesame Street” night, and the episode opened with Elmo singing “What’s The Name of that Song” before turning it over to Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, the Count and...
- 3/16/2023
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
In the weeks following the inaugural edition of the Key Buyers Event, a showcase for new Russian productions held in Moscow last fall, Roskino CEO Evgenia Markova reached out to scores of international guests who had made the trip to the Russian capital. After what was largely perceived as a successful event, in which dozens of Russian titles sold to foreign buyers, Markova wanted to understand what else the film promotion body could do to support the continued growth of the Russian industry.
One piece of advice stood out. “Not many Russian names are known abroad,” says Markova. The consensus among many of the buyers in attendance was that “this is definitely what [Roskino] should work on: you should promote your actors, your producers, your directors. You should show the world you exist.”
For the Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, an online platform to showcase and promote Russian content that takes...
One piece of advice stood out. “Not many Russian names are known abroad,” says Markova. The consensus among many of the buyers in attendance was that “this is definitely what [Roskino] should work on: you should promote your actors, your producers, your directors. You should show the world you exist.”
For the Key Buyers Event: Digital Edition, an online platform to showcase and promote Russian content that takes...
- 6/10/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
The latest collaboration between Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon is a delicate, breezy and entirely endearing comic tale of love and kinship. Herewith I will admit to my shameful, total ignorance of the couple's previous features, L'iceberg (2005), Rumba (2008) and La fee (The Fairy; 2011, reviewed by our own Jim Tudor). They actually have been working together in film since at least 1994, when their short Merci Cupidon was completed. Per Cineuropa, they "met in Paris through their love of the circus" some 37 years ago and make their films in Belgium. I mention all that because Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus) feels simultaneously fresh and also studied, like the latest chapter in a continuing, lighthearted epic that has little to do with...
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- 6/15/2017
- Screen Anarchy
With the state of the world being what it is, we all need as many opportunities to escape into magic and wonder as we can get. Lost In Paris, the new film from filmmaking duo Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, is just one such escape, with a sense of whimsy that is being compared to Jacques Tati in early reviews. Gordon and Abel—who previously collaborated on 2007’s L’Iceberg and 2011’s The Fairy—come from circus backgrounds, and bring that same love of physical performance to the tale of Fiona (Gordon), a small-town Canadian librarian who rushes off to Paris after receiving a distressing letter from her elderly aunt, played by French screen legend Emmanuelle Riva. Once she arrives, she discovers her aunt has gone missing, leading to a madcap series of adventures in the company of Dom (Abel), a Chaplinesque tramp who takes a shine to ...
- 6/13/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Oscilloscope has released an exclusive clip from their upcoming film “Lost in Paris” featuring some musical-style footwork to a jaunty ragtime melody. The romantic comedy follows the journey of a Canadian librarian named Fiona (Fiona Gordon) who travels to Paris, France after receiving a troubling letter from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Emmanuelle Riva).
Upon her arrival to France, Fiona is met with an astronomical amount of disasters, including a genial but annoying tramp named Dom (Dominique Abel).
Read More: Telluride Review: ‘Lost in Paris’ Does For Slapstick What ‘La La Land’ Does For Musicals
Directed by Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, “Lost in Paris” brings back the silly antics and choreographed slapstick comedy that is a staple in the directing duo’s work. Abel and Gordon previously collaborated on “L’Iceberg,” “Rumba,” and “The Fairy.”
While the concern for Fiona’s aunt is what jetsets her off to Paris, it...
Upon her arrival to France, Fiona is met with an astronomical amount of disasters, including a genial but annoying tramp named Dom (Dominique Abel).
Read More: Telluride Review: ‘Lost in Paris’ Does For Slapstick What ‘La La Land’ Does For Musicals
Directed by Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, “Lost in Paris” brings back the silly antics and choreographed slapstick comedy that is a staple in the directing duo’s work. Abel and Gordon previously collaborated on “L’Iceberg,” “Rumba,” and “The Fairy.”
While the concern for Fiona’s aunt is what jetsets her off to Paris, it...
- 6/12/2017
- by Gabrielle Kiss
- Indiewire
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– Hot Docs has announced the ten documentary features that will screen in this year’s Special Presentations program. Special Presentations features a high-profile collection of world and international premieres, award winners from the recent international festival circuit and works by master filmmakers or featuring some star subjects.
Special Presentations will screen as part of the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, running April 27 – May 7. The complete Special Presentations program and the full selection of films to screen at Hot Docs 2017 will be announced on March 21, including the 2017 opening night film.
The new titles include: “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” “Chasing Coral,” “Dolores,” “Elian,” “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower,” “In Loco Parentis,” “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” “Strong Island” and “The Workers Cup.
Lineup Announcements
– Hot Docs has announced the ten documentary features that will screen in this year’s Special Presentations program. Special Presentations features a high-profile collection of world and international premieres, award winners from the recent international festival circuit and works by master filmmakers or featuring some star subjects.
Special Presentations will screen as part of the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, running April 27 – May 7. The complete Special Presentations program and the full selection of films to screen at Hot Docs 2017 will be announced on March 21, including the 2017 opening night film.
The new titles include: “Bill Nye: Science Guy,” “Chasing Coral,” “Dolores,” “Elian,” “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower,” “In Loco Parentis,” “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World,” “Strong Island” and “The Workers Cup.
- 3/2/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Those who have seen a Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel film will never forget their first time. From Rumba (2008) to The Fairy (2011), the duo’s romantic comedies are like no other currently out there, each exquisitely choreographed real-life fairy-tales about ‘real’ characters, the little people without a voice who get overlooked as life rushes […]
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- 10/17/2016
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
No modern comedy group has shown as much commitment to resurrecting the spirit of classic slapstick than Brussels-based husband-and-wife comedy duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. They have performed for decades, but only brought their talents into feature-length filmmaking in the last 10 years, with films like the wordless “Rumba” and “The Fairy” showcasing their commitment to a humor otherwise absent from contemporary cinema. Their lanky figures are ideal vessels for deadpan visuals that mine territory ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Jacques Tati. “Lost in Paris,” their fourth effort (and first without co-director Bruno Romy), continues that earnest commitment to the genre by tapping into the material’s appeal without reinventing it.
Abel and Gordon have yet to produce a full-bodied work with more originality than references, and “Lost in Paris” doesn’t move the needle in that regard. But it’s another charming doodle that does justice to their brand of studied humor.
Abel and Gordon have yet to produce a full-bodied work with more originality than references, and “Lost in Paris” doesn’t move the needle in that regard. But it’s another charming doodle that does justice to their brand of studied humor.
- 9/3/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Oscilloscope Laboratories has picked up Us rights from MK2 Films to Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s fourth feature.
Lost In Paris will open theatrically in 2017 and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a seductive vagabond who find love when the former rushes to Paris to attend to her ailing aunt. Emmanuelle Riva also stars.
Abel and Gordon’s credits include L’iceberg, Rumba and The Fairy.
“Lost In Paris has been found by Oscilloscope,” said the film-makers. “We are thrilled to see our new film in such caring hands and proud to be part of Oscilloscope’s beautiful collection of films. We are looking forward to working with the O-Scope team and meeting our American audience!”
“We live in an unpredictable and often sad world,” said O-Scope’s Dan Berger. “In addition to its copious other merits and beautiful execution, Lost In Paris is foremost such a joyful and heartening film to watch...
Lost In Paris will open theatrically in 2017 and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a seductive vagabond who find love when the former rushes to Paris to attend to her ailing aunt. Emmanuelle Riva also stars.
Abel and Gordon’s credits include L’iceberg, Rumba and The Fairy.
“Lost In Paris has been found by Oscilloscope,” said the film-makers. “We are thrilled to see our new film in such caring hands and proud to be part of Oscilloscope’s beautiful collection of films. We are looking forward to working with the O-Scope team and meeting our American audience!”
“We live in an unpredictable and often sad world,” said O-Scope’s Dan Berger. “In addition to its copious other merits and beautiful execution, Lost In Paris is foremost such a joyful and heartening film to watch...
- 8/29/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Screen rounds up the films from across the globe that could launch at Cannes…
With less than a month to go until the Cannes Film Festival announces its line-up at its annual Paris press conference on April 14, Screen looks at what could make it into Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
UK and Ireland
The UK could have one of its strongest Cannes for years with hot favourites for a competition slot including Andrea Arnold’s Shia Labeouf-starring Us road movie American Honey and Ken Loach’s gritty Northern England-set drama I, Daniel Blake. It would be Loach’s 12th time in competition.
Ben Wheatley is also reportedly gunning for an Official Selection slot for his 1970s Boston-set, gangland thriller Free Fire, potentially Out of Competition or in Midnight Screenings. He was last in Cannes with Sightseers in Directors’ Fortnight.
Other UK hopefuls include Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and Indian...
With less than a month to go until the Cannes Film Festival announces its line-up at its annual Paris press conference on April 14, Screen looks at what could make it into Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
UK and Ireland
The UK could have one of its strongest Cannes for years with hot favourites for a competition slot including Andrea Arnold’s Shia Labeouf-starring Us road movie American Honey and Ken Loach’s gritty Northern England-set drama I, Daniel Blake. It would be Loach’s 12th time in competition.
Ben Wheatley is also reportedly gunning for an Official Selection slot for his 1970s Boston-set, gangland thriller Free Fire, potentially Out of Competition or in Midnight Screenings. He was last in Cannes with Sightseers in Directors’ Fortnight.
Other UK hopefuls include Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and Indian...
- 3/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine – romcoms used to be anything but bland
With this year's Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, Hollywood is attempting to get down and dirty with real people and real problems. But Us films are notoriously bad at this. I Give It a Year is a British comedy about falling out of love – not a romcom, more of a romp-incomp. But whatever happened to the simple idea of the innocently zany finding love?
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Being abnormal used to be normal. In movies such as The Apartment (1960), it was redemptive. Cc Baxter (Jack Lemmon) and Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) are outsiders who've missed the boat, careerwise and hopewise. She's wasting her time on a married man, while Baxter is caught in a sexual vortex established by his superiors, who have clandestine trysts in his apartment while "Buddy Boy" gets...
With this year's Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, Hollywood is attempting to get down and dirty with real people and real problems. But Us films are notoriously bad at this. I Give It a Year is a British comedy about falling out of love – not a romcom, more of a romp-incomp. But whatever happened to the simple idea of the innocently zany finding love?
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Being abnormal used to be normal. In movies such as The Apartment (1960), it was redemptive. Cc Baxter (Jack Lemmon) and Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) are outsiders who've missed the boat, careerwise and hopewise. She's wasting her time on a married man, while Baxter is caught in a sexual vortex established by his superiors, who have clandestine trysts in his apartment while "Buddy Boy" gets...
- 2/14/2013
- by Lucy Ellmann
- The Guardian - Film News
After Aki Kaurismäki's colourful fairytale Le Havre, here's another pastel-hued fancy set in the same port town and also featuring African refugees, this one from the physical theatre stylings of Belgium-based mime artists and dancers Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. He works the night desk in a grubby hotel; she turns up and says she's a fairy and will grant him three wishes. The best that can be said for The Fairy is that it certainly creates its own world. However, it's one I wanted to get out of almost as soon as it began.
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- 6/30/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Dark Horse (15)
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit.
(Todd Solondz, 2011, Us) Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber, Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow, Justin Bartha, Zachary Booth. 86 mins
Trust Todd Solondz to give us the flipside of movie man-childhood. There's nothing funny or adorable about 35-year-old Abe (Gelber), who lives with his parents, collects action figures and has no idea of his own uselessness. He meets his match (sort of) in the virtually comatose Blair, and what ensues is a romcom that's neither romantic nor comical, but beneath the misanthropy lurks some kind of compassion.
Killer Joe (18)
(William Friedkin, 2011, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple. 102 mins
Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller.
The King Of Devil's Island (12A)
(Marius Holst, 2010, Nor/Fra/Swe/Pol) Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad. 116 mins
Prison thriller set on a 1950s Norwegian borstal island.
Storage 24 (15)
(Johannes Roberts, 2012, UK) Noel Clarke, Colin O'Donoghue. 87 mins
Minimal sci-fi thriller set in a London storage unit.
- 6/29/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Prometheus’ reign at the top of the Box Office chart finally came to an end this week as it drops down to fourth place with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter landing the top spot. The Five Year Engagement also did pretty well going in at three, just behind MIB3 in second place.
Stephen Frears’ latest offering fared rather terribly though as despite a pretty widespread release it took only £117,000 in its first week. To put that into perspective, that leaves it trailing behind low-budget horror’s like Chernobyl Diaries and animated abominations likes Top Cat.
There’s not been a large-scale summer blockbuster released for a few weeks now so one of this week’s mid-carders will no doubt be hoping to capitalise. Out of the gaggle of movies out this week, relationship comedy Friends With Kids seems the obvious choice for Box Office success. It’s the directorial debut of Jennifer Westfeldt,...
Stephen Frears’ latest offering fared rather terribly though as despite a pretty widespread release it took only £117,000 in its first week. To put that into perspective, that leaves it trailing behind low-budget horror’s like Chernobyl Diaries and animated abominations likes Top Cat.
There’s not been a large-scale summer blockbuster released for a few weeks now so one of this week’s mid-carders will no doubt be hoping to capitalise. Out of the gaggle of movies out this week, relationship comedy Friends With Kids seems the obvious choice for Box Office success. It’s the directorial debut of Jennifer Westfeldt,...
- 6/29/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The dynamic trio of filmmakers, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy who gave us the delightfully enrapturing Rumba in 2008 have brought their dance/mime format back for another outing, The Fairy (La fée). Theirs is an old-fashioned, visual performance art that translates brilliantly on screen and is simply delightful to watch and totally unique in today’s action-stuffed, 3D cinematic arena.
In The Fairy, Abel plays hotel clerk Dom who leads a solitary life running a hotel at night. One evening he is interrupted eating his dinner and watching a film by a series of guests. The first is John, l’Anglais (Romy) who in pidgin French, asks for a room to stay in but has an unwanted four-legged friend in tow. The second is Fiona (Gordon) who claims to be a fairy and grants Dom three wishes. Dom falls for the enigmatic Fiona after two of his three wishes come true.
In The Fairy, Abel plays hotel clerk Dom who leads a solitary life running a hotel at night. One evening he is interrupted eating his dinner and watching a film by a series of guests. The first is John, l’Anglais (Romy) who in pidgin French, asks for a room to stay in but has an unwanted four-legged friend in tow. The second is Fiona (Gordon) who claims to be a fairy and grants Dom three wishes. Dom falls for the enigmatic Fiona after two of his three wishes come true.
- 6/28/2012
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★☆☆ Flawed, modern day fairytale The Fairy (La fée, 2011) is the third film from comic-collaborators Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. Dom works in a small hotel just outside of Le Havre. One night a barefoot, luggage-less woman named Fiona walks in claiming to be a fairy and offers Dom three wishes. After asking for two (he is unable to decide on the third) they are mysteriously granted and Fiona disappears. Love-struck with Fiona the now forlorn, Dom goes in search of his fairy princess only to discover her in a mental hospital.
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- 6/28/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Aki Kaurismäki is one of those directors whose work is impossible to confuse with anyone else’s. Certainly, his style could be compared to Béla Tarr’s in the somberly staged performance of the actors. The Hungarian master’s work is more stately in its pace, though, with a blanket of chiaroscuro drawn across every frame. Kaurismäki’s image, by contrast, is bathed in a white light that can be unforgiving. The speed of his films mirrors the pace of everyday life in a small community, rather than the shifting of continents evoked by Tarr’s films. However slow Tarr’s speed, his camera tends towards perpetual motion, like the planets, while Kaurismäki often keeps his camera fixed to record his actors in tableaux, motionless as portrait paintings.
At the other end of the scale, Kaurismäki’s style may have inspired the French comedy “La Fée” (The Fairy), similarly stark in its lighting.
At the other end of the scale, Kaurismäki’s style may have inspired the French comedy “La Fée” (The Fairy), similarly stark in its lighting.
- 5/21/2012
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
This review originally ran in November when The Fairy played as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival
What if you met a real life fairy? How would you know? What would you do? American audiences had a similar proposition presented through cinema in 1984′s Splash, replacing a fairy with a mermaid, with whom Tom Hanks fell deeply in love with. The 2011 French film La Fee (The Fairy) is also a romantic fantasy, co-written and co-directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy.
The Fairy is about a man named Dom, played by Dominique Abel. He works as the front desk clerk in a small hotel. He’s friendly, quiet, and perhaps more than a little naive. In the beginning of the film, Dom is hoping to settle down for the evening with some television and a sandwich. Unfortunately, business chooses otherwise.
After first handling an odd customer and his scurrying bag,...
What if you met a real life fairy? How would you know? What would you do? American audiences had a similar proposition presented through cinema in 1984′s Splash, replacing a fairy with a mermaid, with whom Tom Hanks fell deeply in love with. The 2011 French film La Fee (The Fairy) is also a romantic fantasy, co-written and co-directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy.
The Fairy is about a man named Dom, played by Dominique Abel. He works as the front desk clerk in a small hotel. He’s friendly, quiet, and perhaps more than a little naive. In the beginning of the film, Dom is hoping to settle down for the evening with some television and a sandwich. Unfortunately, business chooses otherwise.
After first handling an odd customer and his scurrying bag,...
- 5/4/2012
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – One of the annual gems of the Chicago movie scene is the Siskel Film Center’s unmissable European Union Film Festival. It provides local movie buffs with the opportunity to sample some of the finest achievements in world cinema. For many of the festival selections, their EU appearance will function as their sole screening in the Windy City.
This year’s edition, running from March 2nd through the 29th, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Andrea Arnold (“Wuthering Heights”), Bruce Dumont (“Hors Satan”), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (“The Fairy”), Abdellatif Kechiche (“Black Venus”) and John Landis (“Burke & Hare”). Moviegoers will have the opportunity to see the latest work from some of the world’s most acclaimed and beloved actors, including Léa Seydoux (“Belle Épine”), Tahir Rahim (“Free Men”), Colm Meaney (“Parked”), Noomi Rapace (“Beyond”), Andy Serkis (“Burke & Hare”), Isabella Rossellini (“Late Bloomers”) and Ewan McGregor...
This year’s edition, running from March 2nd through the 29th, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Andrea Arnold (“Wuthering Heights”), Bruce Dumont (“Hors Satan”), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (“The Fairy”), Abdellatif Kechiche (“Black Venus”) and John Landis (“Burke & Hare”). Moviegoers will have the opportunity to see the latest work from some of the world’s most acclaimed and beloved actors, including Léa Seydoux (“Belle Épine”), Tahir Rahim (“Free Men”), Colm Meaney (“Parked”), Noomi Rapace (“Beyond”), Andy Serkis (“Burke & Hare”), Isabella Rossellini (“Late Bloomers”) and Ewan McGregor...
- 2/15/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: The Fairy Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy Screenwriter: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz, Vladimir Zorano, Destiné M’Bikula Mayemba, Wilson Goma Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 2/7/12 Opens: February 24, 2012 No cinephile could possibly watch this movie without thinking of Jacques Tati (1908-82), a French director, who may well have been the inspiration for the Belgo-Canadian-French directors of “The Fairy.” Tati’s theme, like that portrayed by Buster Keaton, is that individual personality is warped by unfeeling organizations–which the principal characters try to...
- 2/9/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Art films don’t have to be serious, but a lot of them are. Madness, suffering, death—at times these become depressingly familiar themes at film festivals. For this reason, the rare comedy film is welcome: comedy highlights of last year’s festivals were Matchmaking Mayor at Berlin and Sons of Norway in Reykjavik. Although you’re primed to enjoy them, comedies are a reliable choice, as they typically have to be original, as well as funny, to be included in the festival.
What if you could have a festival that showed nothing but comedies? And what if it cheered you up during the most depressing month of the year? That’s just what the charity ‘Loco’ has done this year. London’s very first comedy film festival is taking place this weekend at the BFI. It started last night, and you’ll have to be quick if you want...
What if you could have a festival that showed nothing but comedies? And what if it cheered you up during the most depressing month of the year? That’s just what the charity ‘Loco’ has done this year. London’s very first comedy film festival is taking place this weekend at the BFI. It started last night, and you’ll have to be quick if you want...
- 1/28/2012
- by Alison Frank
- The Moving Arts Journal
What if you met a real life fairy? How would you know? What would you do? American audiences had a similar proposition presented through cinema in 1984.s Splash, replacing a fairy with a mermaid, with whom Tom Hanks fell deeply in love with. The 2011 French film La Fee (The Fairy) is also a romantic fantasy, co-written and co-directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy.
The Fairy is about a man named Dom, played by Dominique Abel. He works as the front desk clerk in a small hotel. He.s friendly, quiet, and perhaps more than a little naïve. In the beginning of the film, Dom is hoping to settle down for the evening with some television and a sandwich. Unfortunately, business chooses otherwise.
After first handling an odd customer and his scurrying bag, Dom meets Fiona, played by Fiona Gordon. Fiona is a spritely woman. This is fitting,...
The Fairy is about a man named Dom, played by Dominique Abel. He works as the front desk clerk in a small hotel. He.s friendly, quiet, and perhaps more than a little naïve. In the beginning of the film, Dom is hoping to settle down for the evening with some television and a sandwich. Unfortunately, business chooses otherwise.
After first handling an odd customer and his scurrying bag, Dom meets Fiona, played by Fiona Gordon. Fiona is a spritely woman. This is fitting,...
- 11/18/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I am very intrigued by "The Artist." It's a silent film after all (which is pretty cool!), but it's generating enough Oscar buzz that I cannot simply ignore it! But the road to the Oscars is still quite long and tumultuous even though the preeminent Academy Awards vote-getter, the Weinstein company, is behind the Michel Hazanavicius movie. Still, it would be awesome for "The Artist" to score a Best Picture Nomination! The last time a silent film scored a victory was in 1929 with "The Patriot."
The French film (or does language even matter since it's silent?) stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo and takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1931. It has "A Star is Born" story, if you may, that talks about a relationship between a declining male star and a rising actress. It also talks about the end of the silent film era and the beginning of the talkies.
The French film (or does language even matter since it's silent?) stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo and takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1931. It has "A Star is Born" story, if you may, that talks about a relationship between a declining male star and a rising actress. It also talks about the end of the silent film era and the beginning of the talkies.
- 10/17/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
"The Artist" by Michel Hazanavicius and Marc Levin’s "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island" took the audience awards at the Hamptons International Film Festival Sunday evening, while "The Fairy," directed by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, was named the winner of The Golden Starfish Narrative Feature Award. The Golden Starfish Award for Best Documentary, meanwhile, went to Fellipe Barbosa’s “Laura.” In other honors, Mark Jackson’s “Without” won two awards this ...
- 10/16/2011
- Indiewire
It may be winter down under, but the Melbourne International Film Festival is gearing up for its 60th edition with Cannes Directors Fortnight opener "The Fairy" by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy slated to launch the event July 21st. The film pays homage to Chaplin, Keaton and Jacques Tati, to which the filmmakers add a few contemporary socio-political twists. Overall, 300-plus films are on tap for this year's ...
- 7/5/2011
- Indiewire
Opening the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival, which will kick off in just over a fortnight, is the Belgian film The Fairy, which also opened the Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, the Belgium / French / Australian / Canadian trio have crafted a humorous and nostalgic tale, which pays homage to the great screen comedians Chaplin, Keaton and Jacques Tati, while adding a few contemporary socio-political twists. There are also a slew of new local productions offered up in the Australian Showcase including Fred Schepisi's The Eye of the Storm, which will have its World Premiere on July 23.
- 7/5/2011
- FilmInk.com.au
To follow up on yesterday's roundup of Un Certain Regard remainders...
"The Tati-inspired dance trio of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are at it again, crafting an awfully similar follow-up to their previous feature, Rumba." Blake Williams for Ioncinema: "The Fairy is light on magic and the supernatural, but flutters breezily along with joke-a-minute fluff…. As in their other films, the 'plot' — this one involving a wish-granting fairy — is only really a conceit by which to give the illusion of continuity to what is essentially a string of short films." Screen's Fionnuala Halligan's enjoyed it, though: "Theirs is an old-fashioned, almost silent, routine (their first feature L'Iceberg was virtually wordless) blended beautifully with an arresting dance element." In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer notes that "Tati's hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork by regulars Nicholas Girault and Claire Childeric."
"The Silver Cliff was...
"The Tati-inspired dance trio of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy are at it again, crafting an awfully similar follow-up to their previous feature, Rumba." Blake Williams for Ioncinema: "The Fairy is light on magic and the supernatural, but flutters breezily along with joke-a-minute fluff…. As in their other films, the 'plot' — this one involving a wish-granting fairy — is only really a conceit by which to give the illusion of continuity to what is essentially a string of short films." Screen's Fionnuala Halligan's enjoyed it, though: "Theirs is an old-fashioned, almost silent, routine (their first feature L'Iceberg was virtually wordless) blended beautifully with an arresting dance element." In the Hollywood Reporter, Jordan Mintzer notes that "Tati's hand is evident in the exceptionally precise art direction and camerawork by regulars Nicholas Girault and Claire Childeric."
"The Silver Cliff was...
- 6/1/2011
- MUBI
The Fairy romantic comedy directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, will be distributed in the U.S. by Kino Lorber, reports Variety. The Fairy opened Directors' Fortnight, gaining solid critical response. The directing trio based in Belgium previously helmed Iceberg and Rumba. Nathanael Karmitz' production, distribution and sales company MK2, which is based in Paris, sold The Fairy. Pic was also picked up by Pandastorm for distribution in Austria and Germany, Praesens for Switzerland, Cineart for Benelux and Bir Films for Turkey.
- 5/27/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Fairy romantic comedy directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, will be distributed in the U.S. by Kino Lorber, reports Variety. The Fairy opened Directors' Fortnight, gaining solid critical response. The directing trio based in Belgium previously helmed Iceberg and Rumba. Nathanael Karmitz' production, distribution and sales company MK2, which is based in Paris, sold The Fairy. Pic was also picked up by Pandastorm for distribution in Austria and Germany, Praesens for Switzerland, Cineart for Benelux and Bir Films for Turkey.
- 5/27/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Fairy romantic comedy directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, will be distributed in the U.S. by Kino Lorber, reports Variety. The Fairy opened Directors' Fortnight, gaining solid critical response. The directing trio based in Belgium previously helmed Iceberg and Rumba. Nathanael Karmitz' production, distribution and sales company MK2, which is based in Paris, sold The Fairy. Pic was also picked up by Pandastorm for distribution in Austria and Germany, Praesens for Switzerland, Cineart for Benelux and Bir Films for Turkey.
- 5/27/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The folks who brought us Certified Copy, Dogtooth and To the Sea have a huge film in their possessions that might topple the Venice Film Fest. MK2, the Sales Agent, Theatrical Distribution and Production Company must be close to selling out all the territories for Walter Salles' On the Road, but in the mean time they've got Beauty playing in the Ucr, The Fairy opening the Directors' Fortnight, a doc on Charlotte Rmpling and are bringing back Melies' A Trip to the Moon to life. Here is the entire slate which includes Xavier Dolan's next. Beauty (Skoonheid) by Olivier Hermanus - Completed On The Road by Walter Salles - Post-Production The Fairy (La Fee) by Dominique Abel - Completed A Trip To The Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) by Georges Melies - Completed Black Venus (Venus Noire) by Abdellatif Kechiche - Completed Charade by Stanley Donen -...
- 5/13/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Updated through 5/9.
Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both will be screening in Un Certain Regard and, if you're checking the entry rounding up all the current news on the lineup of the Official Selection, you'll see, first, that it's being continuously updated (as are the entries on Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight), and second, another trailer: the one for Na Hong-jin's Yellow Sea. And of course, you've seen the trailers for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Let's have a look at a few more.
Here's one for Joseph Cedar's Footnote:
And here's another and another.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike:
Update, 5/9: The Playlist has two clips.
Julie Leigh's Sleeping Beauty:
Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli...
Along with the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's The Day He Arrives, another's just appeared for Kim Ki-duk's Arirang. Both will be screening in Un Certain Regard and, if you're checking the entry rounding up all the current news on the lineup of the Official Selection, you'll see, first, that it's being continuously updated (as are the entries on Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight), and second, another trailer: the one for Na Hong-jin's Yellow Sea. And of course, you've seen the trailers for Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Let's have a look at a few more.
Here's one for Joseph Cedar's Footnote:
And here's another and another.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Kid with a Bike:
Update, 5/9: The Playlist has two clips.
Julie Leigh's Sleeping Beauty:
Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
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